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Charitable Institutions.
20. The following are the best known Charitable Institutions.
French Convent Orphanage. Italian Convent Orphanage. Maryknoll Convent, Kowloon. St. Louis Industrial School.
Po Leung Kuk - Chinese. Victoria Home and Orphanage.
Society of Precious Blood Hospital.
Home for Aged Poor, Kowloon.
La Calvaire Home for Aged Poor, Happy Valley - Eyre Refuge.
Salvation Army Home.
Industrial Home for the Blind, Pokfulam.
Recreation and Art.
21. Most of the schools contrive to hold Annual Sports either on their own grounds or on grounds generously lent by local Cricket and Football Clubs. Some schools are granted free use of Government Bathing Beaches for four afternoons a week during the Bathing Season. Lawn Tennis, Football, Swimming, Volley Ball and Basket Ball continue to increase in popularity. Cricket is played at a few schools. Physical training is given by qualified instructors. Art is taught in the Government British Schools by Trained Art Mistresses.
Chapter X.
COMMUNICATION AND TRANSPORT.
The external communications of Hong Kong are excellent both by sea and by telegraph, cable and radio. As regards the former, the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Co., the Nippon Yusen Kaisha, the Blue Funnel Line, the Messageries Maritimes, and several other British and foreign companies maintain regular passenger and freight services between Hong Kong and Europe. The trans-Pacific communications are well served by the Canadian Pacific Steamships Ltd., the Dollar Line, the Nippon Yusen Kaisha, and other steamship lines. To Australia three steamship companies, the Eastern and Australian, Nippon Yusen Kaisha, and Australian and Oriental maintain regular passenger and freight services. In addition there are direct sailings to Africa, South America, and to New York. There is frequent and regular communication between Hong Kong and other Far Eastern ports in India, Java, Straits